Summary

In this revised and expanded edition, Richard Rubenstein returns to old questions and addresses new issues with the same passion and spirit that characterized his original work.

Author Bio

Richard L. Rubenstein is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion and Codirector of the Humanities Institute at Florida State University. His other books include The Religious Imagination, The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future, The Age of Triage, and, with John K. Roth, Approaches to Auschwitz.

Table of Contents

Pt. I The Encounter of Christian and Jew

1. The Dean and the Chosen People 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy

Pt. II The Meaning of the Holocaust

5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the Holocaust 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in Historical Context 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada

Pt. III Theology and Contemporary Judaism

8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 2 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Theology 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish Theology 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish View 16. God after the Death of God

Richard L. Rubenstein is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion and Codirector of the Humanities Institute at Florida State University. His other books include The Religious Imagination, The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future, The Age of Triage, and, with John K. Roth, Approaches to Auschwitz.

1. The Dean and the Chosen People 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy

Pt. II The Meaning of the Holocaust

5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the Holocaust 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in Historical Context 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada

Pt. III Theology and Contemporary Judaism

8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 2 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Theology 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish Theology 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish View 16. God after the Death of God

Summary

In this revised and expanded edition, Richard Rubenstein returns to old questions and addresses new issues with the same passion and spirit that characterized his original work.

Author Bio

Richard L. Rubenstein is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion and Codirector of the Humanities Institute at Florida State University. His other books include The Religious Imagination, The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future, The Age of Triage, and, with John K. Roth, Approaches to Auschwitz.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Pt. I The Encounter of Christian and Jew

1. The Dean and the Chosen People 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy

Pt. II The Meaning of the Holocaust

5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the Holocaust 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in Historical Context 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada

Pt. III Theology and Contemporary Judaism

8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 2 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Theology 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish Theology 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish View 16. God after the Death of God